# Strange safari behavior

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-safari-behavior/111980>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 14, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-safari-behavior/111980 "2007-08-14T01:05:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jemminger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jemminger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jemminger)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-safari-behavior/111980/1 "2007-08-14T01:05:29Z")

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i’m having some very strange behavior with safari on mac osx… using  
restful routes in an app, trying to follow a link like

/blog/2;edit

this works fine in firefox & safari when running locally. if i deploy  
it to my remote server, firefox works but safari refuses to load the  
page. in the safari ‘activity’ window, it just says ‘error’

anyone ever had this happen?  
thanks,  
jeff

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**Author:** ![jemminger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jemminger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jemminger)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-safari-behavior/111980/2 "2007-08-14T05:10:49Z")

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solved possibly… for posterity, switching to multi\_window=true in  
selenium\_on\_rails config.yml seems to work.

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**Author:** ![jemminger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jemminger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jemminger)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-safari-behavior/111980/3 "2007-08-14T22:34:06Z")

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[solved]  
turns out this was due to the .htaccess we have on the site… for  
some reason safari is being sent “401 auth required” even after the  
initial login.